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It all started with a smell of burned plastic from my pc
Hello!!
It all started one morning in the beginning of May when i woke up to a burned smell from my pc!!! First thing I checked was system and cpu temp and both where ok. Then the hole system just crashed and I could not get it up and go again.
I thought the smell came from the PSU so I bought a new one, my old PSU was of the budget type so I found it smart to buy a new (Fortron). Then I tried to boot my PC with an other hardrive with win xp installed on it. That worked fine, so I decided to buy a new hardrive and expected all my sorrows to be gone. But during installation of Win xp all kinds of stop errors popped up.
First I got Paged fault in non paged area, then reboot then bad pool caller, reboot and then driver irql not less or equal.
After a lot of restarts I where able to install Windows xp.
but every time after rebooting it said that it had recoverd from a serious error caused by a device driver (video driver according to the report from Microsoft)
I also got some reports saying that Audio devices where not installed properly(on board) but that stopped after installing drivers from the disk following the motherboard.
I did update windows incl sp2 and installed all the newest drivers, but the computer just became more and more unstable auto rebooted several times and it ended in another crash. I could get it up and go again but with the same procedure as mentioned abow... 20 restarts during clean winxp install.
I borowed a graphic card and memory from work but that did not help at all.
My system Athlon xp1800 with 512MB pc2700, palit daytona ti4200 mounted on a Jetway V266B mobo.
Since I have tried my system with new: hardrive, memory, PSU, video card and bios update I guess it all comes down to the mobo but it would be nice to heare if any one have any other idea or experience with similar symptoms.
Some details about the stop errors:
Page fault in non page area:
0x00000050
Bad pool caller:
0x00000007
Driver irql not less or equal:
0x000000d1
It all started one morning in the beginning of May when i woke up to a burned smell from my pc!!! First thing I checked was system and cpu temp and both where ok. Then the hole system just crashed and I could not get it up and go again.
I thought the smell came from the PSU so I bought a new one, my old PSU was of the budget type so I found it smart to buy a new (Fortron). Then I tried to boot my PC with an other hardrive with win xp installed on it. That worked fine, so I decided to buy a new hardrive and expected all my sorrows to be gone. But during installation of Win xp all kinds of stop errors popped up.
First I got Paged fault in non paged area, then reboot then bad pool caller, reboot and then driver irql not less or equal.
After a lot of restarts I where able to install Windows xp.
but every time after rebooting it said that it had recoverd from a serious error caused by a device driver (video driver according to the report from Microsoft)
I also got some reports saying that Audio devices where not installed properly(on board) but that stopped after installing drivers from the disk following the motherboard.
I did update windows incl sp2 and installed all the newest drivers, but the computer just became more and more unstable auto rebooted several times and it ended in another crash. I could get it up and go again but with the same procedure as mentioned abow... 20 restarts during clean winxp install.
I borowed a graphic card and memory from work but that did not help at all.
My system Athlon xp1800 with 512MB pc2700, palit daytona ti4200 mounted on a Jetway V266B mobo.
Since I have tried my system with new: hardrive, memory, PSU, video card and bios update I guess it all comes down to the mobo but it would be nice to heare if any one have any other idea or experience with similar symptoms.
Some details about the stop errors:
Page fault in non page area:
0x00000050
Bad pool caller:
0x00000007
Driver irql not less or equal:
0x000000d1
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I've heard that the Jetway motherboards are fairly low-budget boards, and it's not rare for a power supply to take out the motherboard (and sometimes other components) on it's way out. It could well be that the motherboard has taken a bit of damage, which has borked it a bit so that it's not workin the way it should.
Basically what Buckeyes said :-P
Basically what Buckeyes said :-P
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Hello
Sorry it took time until I could responde. I have been sick for some time.
I I could not find any burned spots under the board but i found a lot of bad capacitors (bulge and leaking on the top). 2 close to the AGP slot and 6 close to the CPU
I do not have any other A socket mainboard to try out so I guess I just have to buy one and hope that it will do the trick.
Sorry it took time until I could responde. I have been sick for some time.
I I could not find any burned spots under the board but i found a lot of bad capacitors (bulge and leaking on the top). 2 close to the AGP slot and 6 close to the CPU
I do not have any other A socket mainboard to try out so I guess I just have to buy one and hope that it will do the trick.
Bad capacitors = bad motherboard you will have to get a new motherboard.
ASKER
I bought a new mobo, MSI this time, and everything works fine now even though something strange happend right after clean install. It was a service called "mssys" that keept making trouble. I found that strange since this was a clean install updatet with Autopatcher. This "mssys" blanked out the screen and I think downloaded som trojans too. Any way my system worked excelent after throwing that thing out.
Thanks to buckeyes33, you got those points and ..Wattsbo.. I will not buy a single product from Jetway again.
Thanks to buckeyes33, you got those points and ..Wattsbo.. I will not buy a single product from Jetway again.
your welcome.
if not, check them in another machine if possible...it must have given up do to the power problems.
or you can download the memory tester from www.simmtester.com and run the complete test